Waitrose acquisition: City firm Lovells advised retailer Waitrose on its acquisition of 13 stores from the Co-­operative group and ­Somerfield for an undisclosed sum. National firm Addleshaw Goddard advised Co-op and Somerfield.

Gold mine: The London office of US firm Shearman & Sterling, alongside Australian firm Allens Arthur Robinson, advised AngloGold Ashanti on selling its 33%, $1.1bn (£768m) joint venture stake in Western Australia’s Boddington Gold Mine. Buyer Newmont was advised by US firm White & Case and Australian firms Watsons and Freehills.

Liquidity pool: Magic circle firm Clifford Chance advised NYSE Euronext Group on establishing the SmartPool, a new liquidity pool for European equities. Clifford Chance also advised NYSE Euronext on a system that allows credit default swap contracts to be cleared through the LIFFE exchange.

Congo loan: City firm Norton Rose, Canadian firm Cassels Brock & Blackwell, Bermuda firm Appleby and Democratic Republic of Congo firm Djunga & Risasi advised Toronto-listed Katanga Mining on acquiring a $265.3m (£185m) loan from Glencore Finance (Bermuda). Magic circle firm Clifford Chance advised Glencore.

Silicon stake: National firm DLA Piper advised Datang Telecom Technology & Industry on its acquisition of a $172m (£120m) stake in Semiconductor Manufacturing International, which was advised by magic circle firm Slaughter and May and US firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Contract funding: City firm Nabarro, Northern Ireland firm Mills Selig and Bermuda firm Conyers, Dill & Pearman advised AssetCo, which provides support services, vehicles and equipment to UK emergency services and security organisations, on acquiring £15m funding from fund manager North Atlantic Value. The funds will be used to support development in the Middle East.

Coal venture: Leeds firm Walker Morris advised Hargreaves Services, which supplies products and support services to the energy and waste industry, in its £9m acquisition of coal supplier Coal4Energy, a joint venture company formed alongside coal producer UK Coal. City firm Nabarro advised UK Coal.